Glass-severing machine



June 22, 1943. J sp 2,322,336

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3/ as H 2 I I A /INVENTOR ATTORNEY June 22,1943.

J. L. ANDERSON GLASS SEVERING MACHINE Filed Au 3, 1940 2 Sheets-Shet z MI I Les

l INVENTOR BY J % ATTORNEY of the supporting means.

l atented June 1943 2,322,336 omss-snvsn'mo moms James L.

Reduction Anderson, Cluster, N. J., assignor to Air Company, Incorporated, New York,

N. Y., a corporation of New York. Application August 3, 1940, Serial No. 350,445

Claims.

This invention relates to machines for severing the necks of blown glass articles, such as globes, and by continued fusion producing an edge with a thickened, rounded contour.

Glass articles that are made by blowing necessarily have a neck at the blowpipe end. This neck portion, also known as a moil, can be removed in various ways, one of the most advantageous of which is by directing flame jets against the glass along-the desired line of severance. Flame-severing of glass is quick, clean, economical, and has the additional advantage of leaving a slightly thickened and rolled edge that strengthens the article against breakage.

It is an object of this invention to provide an improved apparatus for severing glass articles bymeans of flame jets, and. it is a more particular object to provide a simpler and more efficient machine by which the neck portion can be removed from a newly-blown glass article, such as a globe.

The preferred embodiment of the invention includes supporting means on which a glass article isplaced with its neck portion extending downward and passing through an open center A torch, preferably an annular torch, directs the flame jets against the glass while the article is rotated by the supporting means.

The invention comprises novel features and combinations of elements that make the machine simple in construction, and convenient and advantageous in use.

Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will appear or be pointed out as the specification proceeds.

In the accompanying hereof Fig. 1' is a perspective view of a glass-severing machine embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is a much enlarged, sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, with the supporting means ina different position.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic side elevation of the machine shown in Fig. l, but with a glass article on the supporting means.

Fig. 4: is an enlarged view of the torch, partly drawings, forming a part rotated as a unit with the cover I by mechanism which will be described in connection with Fig. 2. For the present it is suflicient to understand that the supports rotate with the cover It about a vertical axis.

The top faces of the supports it are covered with asbestos or'other refractory material on which a red-hot globe can be rested. The stationary frame I! and cover I are open at the center and the glass article to be severed is placed on the supports it with its neck portion extending downward through these center openings.

. A movable frame It has bearing sleeves 'll that slide up and down on the legs H as guides. The movable frame It includes a flat plate portion is with an open center. Guards I8, 20, on

. all sides of the center opening through the movable frame l6, have angular bases attached .to the plate portion it.

The upper end of one or more of the guards it serves as a holder for an annular torch 28 that has jet orifices 22 directed inward around the entire inner face of the torch. Gas is supplied to the torch 2! from two mixers 23, each of which receives fuel gas, preferably acetylene. through a hose 25, and oxygen through a hose 26.

A yoke 21 is connected with opposite sides of the movable frame It and fastened at its center to a piston rod 263 of a double-acting cylinder-and-piston motor 2Q secured to the base 62. Air is supplied to opposite ends, of the cylinder of the motor 29 through tubes 3i leading from a valve tfi. A pedal 33 is actuated by the operator of the machine to open each of the tubes 38 alternately to a source of compressed air, or to atmosphere for exhaust.

Split clamps as on one or more of the tubular legs ii serve as adjustable abutments for limiting the upward movement of the frame it, and

these clamps are located in position to stop the movable frame it when the torch it is in position to sever the neck portion of the article resting on the supports 83 along the desired line.

A bracket til connected to the fixed frame it? supports a motor at equipped with a centrifu= gal governor that can be adjusted by a mole do to operate at different speeds. The motor drives a shaft ii through reduction gearing and a coupling as. A housing (iii attached to the frame it supports a snap switch tit and other control means for the motor.

The drive shaft Bi tums in a. hearing (Fig. 2) of the fixed frame iii, and thereis a pinion 68 secured to the upper end of the shaft 38.

This pinion 48 meshes with an annular gear 49 that rests on a bearing surface within the stationary frame-l0, and is held against lateral displacement by a vertical bearing surface 52 within the frame. A ring 54 attached to the underlying frame III by screws 56 extends over a flange of the annular gear 49 to prevent the gear from being lifted out of the frame.

The lower ends of the supports l3 comprise yokes which extend through the cover I4 and have threaded ends 51 that screw into the gear chute 64 that deflects the severed glass to the right in Fig. 3 and clear of the machine. The bottom wall of the chute thus serves as a shield to protect the motor 29 from falling glass.

Figs- 4 and 5 show the preferred construction of the torch 2|. The end of each of the mixers 23 screws into an inlet fili through the bottom of an annular torch body 61. The inlet 66 opens into an arcuate recess 68 in the top surface of the torch body 51. With two mixers 23 it is sum-- cient that the recess 68 have an angular extent of substantially 180, a similar recess in communication with the second mixer serving the same .purpose around the other half of the annular torch.

An annular disk 10 has evenly spaced holes ll located over the recess 68, and there is a radial slot 12 extending from each of the holes 1| to the inner edge of the annular disk. A cover plate 14 over thedisk 10 is fastened to the torch body 61 by screws 15.

The cover plate 14 preferably has one or more arcuate recesses in its bottom face and such recesses, together with the holes II of the disk 10, and recesses 68 of the torch body 61, form the distributing chambers of the torch 2|. The slots 12 comprise the jet orifices of the torch. The. spacing of these orifices is shown in Fig. 4, but is exaggerated in Fig. 5 to make the drawings clearer.

Other kinds of torches can be used, and various other changes and modifications made in the preferred embodiment of the invention, and some features of the invention can be used without others.

I claim:

1. A glass-severing machine comprising' a base, a stationary frame mounted on the base and comprising upwardly extending tubular legs and an annular housing connected to the upper ends of the legs, an annular gear rotatable in said housing'as a bearing, supporting means on which a newly blown globe rests with its neckend extending downward through the open cenan annular torch carried by said holder and having jet orifices for directing a ring of flame jets against the neck of the globe along the desired line of severance, a chute carried by the movable frame and including an inclined bottom wall in position to deflect a severed neck to one side of the machine, a double-acting cylinder-and-piston motor under said bottom wall and connected at one end to the movable frame and at the other end to the base, an operatoractuated valve mounted on the machine for controlling the flow of working fluid to the cylinder, and an adjustable limit stop on at least one of the guide tubes for limiting the movement of the movable frame.

2. A machine for severing the neck from a newly-blown glass article including in combination a horizontally disposed annular gear, bearings for said gear, mechanism for rotating the annular gear on the bearings, supports rotated by the gear and on which the glass article rests with its neck-end extending downward through the opening in said gear, vertically-movable means for severing the neck, said verticallymovable means comprising an annular torch po- 7 sitioned with its opening in alinement with the to bring a torch into position to cut the neck ter of the housing and gear, said supporting means being carried by and rotatable with said gear, a governor-controlled motor supported opening in the gear, a torch support positioned below the gear, and a reciprocating rod connected to the torch support for moving the same vertically up and down for each severing operation, guide means on which the torch support is slidable, means for reciprocating the rod to move the torch between operative and inoperative position, and anabutment positioned in the path of movement of the vertically movable means for stopping movement of said verticallymovable means when the torchreaches its operative position.

3. A machine for severing the neck from a newly-blown glass article including in combination supporting means on which the glass article is held by gravity with its neck-end extending downward, vertically movable means for severing the neck, said vertically-movable means comprising an annular torch positioned with its opening in alinement with the neck of the glass article, a torch support positioned below the supporting means for the glass article, and a reciprocating rod connected to the torch support for moving the same vertically up and down for each severing operation, guide means on which the torch support is slidable, means for reciprocating the rod to move the torch between operative and inoperative position, and an abutment positioned in the path 'of movement of the vertically-movable means for stopping movement of said vertically-movable means when the torch reaches its operative position.

4. A glass-severing machine comprising a sup-' porting means rotatable about a fixed vertical axis and in a fixed horizontal plane, and on which a blown glass article is held by gravity with the neck portion of said article extending downward, mechanism for rotating the supporting means, a torch holder movable up and down from the article on the supporting means, a fluid motor for moving the torch holder to shift the torch into and out of said position for each severing operation on successive glass articles, and

an abutment in the path ofone of the parts that is moved by the motor for causing the torch holder to stop in the same position for each severing operation.

5. A glass-severing machine comprising a suna torch holder movable up and down to bring a torch into position'to cut the neck from the arti cle on the supporting means, and apparatus for moving the torch holder toward and from the supporting means to shift the torch into and 1 out of its cutting position for each severing operation on successive glass articles, said apparatus including a double-acting cylinder and a piston motor; operator-actuated valvemeans for controlling the supply of 'working fluid to the cylinder. and an abutment in the path of one of the parts that moves with the motor for causing the torch holder to stop in the same position for each severing operation.

JAMES L. ANDERSON. 

